Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Elisa Wiggins

We recently had the chance to connect with Elisa Wiggins and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Elisa, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What is a normal day like for you right now?
A typical day for me begins with intention and stillness. When my alarm goes off, I usually allow myself a few extra minutes to enjoy the quiet comfort of my bed. I use that time for gentle breathwork, a short meditation, and a conversation with God to set the tone for my day.

Before heading into the world, I spend a moment snuggling my 6-year-old Holland Lop bunny named Love—he’s my little grounding companion. Then I make breakfast, and we “share” that peaceful morning time together. After getting ready, I head off to work feeling centered, present, and ready to be productive and supportive wherever I’m needed.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hi, I’m Elisa Marie Wiggins — a wilderness guide, intuitive artist, faith-based yoga and breathwork instructor, and founder of Visionary LHC Healing Arts.

My work blends creative expression, spiritual grounding, and somatic practices to help people reconnect with themselves and with God. Through meditative hair sessions, intuitive art journeys, restorative yoga, and wellness coaching, I create spaces where people feel seen, supported, and safe to explore their healing.

After navigating my own wilderness seasons — including trauma, reinvention, and deep spiritual transformation — I’ve built a brand centered around gentleness, authenticity, and sacred symbolism. I draw inspiration from nature, wildflowers, color, movement, and prayer to guide others through their own transitions and breakthroughs.

With nearly three decades of combined experience in salon artistry, holistic wellness, and art, I’ve learned how to hold space for people in uniquely creative and meaningful ways. Right now, I’m expanding my work through devotional writing, coaching, intuitive art classes, and a growing body of offerings that bring faith, creativity, and healing together.

My story is one of resilience, spiritual awakening, and purpose — and my mission is to help others find clarity, courage, and restoration in their own wilderness. My coaching style is using something called a wilderness map framework, including using color and shape as language in art classes. And we find if you’re in a season of rest, reflection or rebirth and guide from there.

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Before the world told me who I had to be, I was a quiet, shy, creative, intuitive soul who heard God in the trees and leaves, felt truth in colors, and trusted the wilderness more than the noise of expectation, even though I had some fear.

I was a girl who loved to draw, dream, and listen deeply. I moved through the world with curiosity, softness, and a natural desire to help others feel safe and understood. I carried a sensitivity that wasn’t weakness—it was discernment. A tenderness that wasn’t fragility—it was wisdom forming.

Before life, trauma, and survival-mode responsibilities layered over my spirit, I was someone who felt free to explore, to imagine, to pray without fear, and to express myself without apologizing for my depth or my creativity.

And now, through healing, faith, and rediscovery, I’m returning to that version of myself—unfiltered, intuitive, and God-led. The one who creates, the one who listens, the one who walks barefoot in the wilderness and remembers who she was before the world tried to tell her otherwise.

What’s something you changed your mind about after failing hard?
After failing hard, I changed my mind about what failure actually means.
For a long time, I thought failure was proof that I wasn’t enough — not strong enough, not smart enough, not worthy enough, not chosen. But when life brought me to my knees through loss, trauma, financial struggle, and starting over more than once, I realized something unexpected:

Failure isn’t a verdict — it’s an invitation.
An invitation to surrender, to listen deeper, to let God redirect me, and to let go of identities and expectations that were never mine to carry.

I changed my mind about believing I had to do everything alone.
I changed my mind about equating my worth with my performance.
I changed my mind about thinking I had to be the “strong one” all the time.
And most importantly, I changed my mind about the idea that failure disqualifies you — when in reality, it prepares you.

My hardest failures became the very soil where my wilderness calling, my intuition, my creativity, and my spiritual authority started to grow.
Now I see failure as refinement, not rejection — God’s way of stripping away what wasn’t aligned so I could finally become who I was designed to be.

So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes and no.
The public version of me is real — I am grounded, intuitive, faith-centered, creative, and deeply committed to helping others heal. That part isn’t an act. It’s who I truly am at my core.

But I am also curated.
I share the wisdom that came from the wilderness, not always the wounds that got me there. I show the strength God built in me, not always the moments I doubted it.
I express the beauty, art, softness, and depth I carry, but I doesn’t always reveal the exhaustion, grief, or battles I’m still working through.

The public me is the healed layers.
The private me is the healing in progress.

Both are real.
Both are honest.
They just serve different purposes.

One is here to guide and inspire.
The other is where God does the deeper work — the quiet refinements, corrections, and restorations no one sees.

I don’t see it as two different selves.
I see it as one woman with multiple dimensions — the part that speaks publicly from my scars, and the part that privately grows from them.

Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
I hope people say that I was someone who made them feel seen, safe, and closer to God.
Not because I was perfect, but because I lived honestly — scars, stories, and all — and used my wilderness to guide others through theirs.

I hope they say I brought gentleness into harsh places.
That I listened deeply.
That I loved without judgment.
That my presence felt like a breath of peace in a frantic world.

I hope they remember that I encouraged them to hear God’s voice for themselves, to trust their intuition, to create beauty out of their pain, and to believe they were worthy of restoration.

I hope they tell stories of how I made art that healed them, spoke words that strengthened them, and held space that allowed them to rediscover parts of themselves they had forgotten.

And more than anything,
I hope they say that my life pointed people back to hope —
back to faith —
back to themselves —
and back to the God who never left them..

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